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My New York: Cindy Adams

Only in Cindy Adams’ New York do Yorkies get bespoke sable coats, ink-stained writers get the best table at Le Cirque and Frank Sinatra hangs out with your husband at Patsy’s. Dreamers come to the city hoping to get just a tiny slice of the glitz that is The Post’s gossip world — and she’s been writing about it in these pages for the past 30 years. From Tuesday through Friday, Adams will dish about her life in her first one-woman show, “Only in New York,” staged at her legendary Park Avenue penthouse to benefit the ASPCA. This, kids, is her New York.

1. Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 108 Orchard St., at Delancey Street

“That’s where the fashion industry began. The people from overseas that came here — they did the hand-sewing. They’re the ones who made the first shirts, suits and dresses for all the people crowding into New York. That’s where they were made, in people’s apartments. Then they went to a factory and then it went to the fashion center and then it went to Bergdorf’s. The whole progression of fashion here started on the Lower East Side.”

2. Diamond District, West 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues

“It’s the most fabulous looking place in the whole world. I don’t go to buy diamonds for myself, but you can buy little gifts for people. I just wander around. There’s so much stuff to look at that it’s a day’s festivity. After looking at diamonds, you can catch a pretzel on the street and then go back in and browse.”

3. Sea Grill, 19 W. 49th St., at Sixth Avenue

“I work at Rockefeller Center. I’m on WNBC Channel 4 every Sunday morning on ‘Today in New York.’ There’s the Sea Grill, the big restaurant right on the rink. It’s absolutely the most glorious place. Where else can you sit and watch people ice skating and falling on their faces and trying to balance while you’re having the most elegant food in the world?”

4. Dennis Basso, 765 Madison Ave., at 66th Street

“He made golden sable coats for Jazzy and for Juicy. [Adams’ beloved Yorkshire terriers; Jazzy I died in 2003.] I just said, “Get ’em a goddamn golden sable coat for Chrissake!” Juicy is the size of the palm of my hand. It goes over her back and straps underneath with Velcro. That’s her sable coat — just her tail sticks out.”

5. Madison Avenue, from 60th to 78th Street

“I’m on Madison Avenue I don’t know how many times a week. I always walk Madison Avenue — I leave the car and have it follow me. It’s the only city that you can walk in and not be tired. You go from Calvin [Klein] to Carolina [Herrera] to jewelry stores to fur shops to furniture shops. It’s the most glorious strip in the world.”

6. Judith Ripka, 673 Madison Ave., at 61st Street, and 777 Madison Ave., at 66th Street

“She understands those of us who are dog freaks and will spend any amount of money to make our dogs look better than we look. She has collars with diamond studs in them and gold collars and silver collars.”

7. Zitomer Z Spot, 969 Madison Ave., at 76th Street

“I take my dogs [Jazzy II and Juicy] to Zitomer’s to shop. It’s right next to the Carlyle Hotel. It’s a huge dog supply store, but very high-end. I buy them toys they don’t need — a stuffed Louis Vuitton bag, a blue box with white thread on it that says Tiffany. So the dogs are playing with Louis Vuitton and Tiffany plush toys. This is for the most spoiled freaking dogs the world has ever known.”

8. Angus McIndoe, 258 W. 44th St., at Eighth Avenue

“It used to be Sardi’s, but if you’re going to the theater now it’s Angus McIndoe. They have a quick turnaround and they’re actually in the Theater District. They’re theater-minded and very savvy about it. They have hamburgers, and I often order a hamburger. The last time I was there I was there with Val Kilmer. I get mine medium-rare, no cheese, lots of ketchup — so that it runs down my face.”

9. The view from the Grand Central Terminal Park Avenue Viaduct, Park Avenue, between 40th and 46th streets

“When you’re going down Park Avenue, right around 47th Street, if you turn and look uptown — the architecture, the glass boxes, those buildings where Lever House was — it’s heart-stopping. The greatest wealth, the greatest fame, the greatest celebrities, the highest buildings. You aren’t gonna find that in Tulsa.”

10. Stage Deli & Restaurant, 834 Seventh Ave., at 53rd Street

“When I was 16, I met Joey Adams, the comedian I married. He took me right away to the Stage. There’s a sandwich with my name at the Stage. Whatever it is, it’s crappy — it’s got ham, it’s got tongue. But I order it because I’m faithful.” [Editor’s note: The Stage’s Cindy Adams actually has corned beef, pastrami and Swiss.]

11. New Fulton Fish Market Cooperative at Hunts Point, 800 Food Center Drive, at Halleck Street, The Bronx

“I’ve gone to the Hunts Point fish market at 2 in the morning, where they process 2 million pounds of fish a day. If you stand [all the purveyors’ stalls] on end, it is higher than the Empire State Building. I’d never seen tuna — it’s so huge. When they cut it open, it’s so dark red that it’s maroon going into blue.”

12. Le Cirque, 151 E. 58th St., at Lexington Avenue

“That’s where I go when I want to make sure people see me. The first table, the banquette on the right, is where I sit and — where anybody who’s better than I am that particular meal will sit. Everybody sees you right away in the first banquette on the right.”

13. Patsy’s Italian Restaurant, 236 W. 56th St., at Broadwa|

“[Frank] Sinatra used to eat there, and my husband [Joey] used to go there with him. They used to come in a separate door, a door to the side where they were let in as super-VIPs. There’s a dining room upstairs — Sinatra used to go up, and Joey went up, and it was made for those guys. They would sit upstairs at their own place. Now, it’s where I go when I want pasta. They make spaghetti al dente with oil and garlic for me. Then they make me a dish of broccoli rabe and a dish of spinach. I don’t even order. I just sit down and they bring.”